Doug Carpenter ’55

6 Years Ago

Halliburton's Humor

Richard Halliburton 1921 has recently appeared several times in PAW in regard to the amazing travel adventures in his very short life.

My father, Chuck Carpenter, was a friend and classmate of his at both Lawrenceville and Princeton, where he kept a "Guest Book" in his dorm room. As students dropped by to see him, they wrote short messages in that book. Here is one that Halliburton wrote a hundred years ago:

      Chuck saw her stepping from her car,

        and to her side he sped.

      "May I assist you to alight."

         "I do not smoke," she said.

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